Recaps

Lin Shuang joined Qingque’s Emperor’s Jade game and became her regular card partner, earning a green draw that granted her Master Level Art of Deception. She used her newfound game skills to defeat Qingque, leaving the card table in awkward silence.

• Qingque invited Lin Shuang to take the place of a departing friend and play Emperor’s Jade.
• Lin Shuang won several early rounds, while Qingque later won big hands and recovered her losses.
• Lin Shuang agreed to join Qingque’s regular games, raising Qingque’s favorability and earning a green draw.
• Lin Shuang drew Master Level Art of Deception and gained extensive cheating and game-playing techniques.
• Lin Shuang won by self-draw after Qingque pushed up her multiplier, causing Qingque to lose everything she had won and leaving the table silent.

Fu Xuan caught Qingque playing cards instead of working and ordered her to make up the missed hours under supervision. Qingque then took Lin Shuang on a tour of Changle Heaven and began to explain the business she wanted to discuss.

• Fu Xuan confronted Qingque for skipping work, ordered her to work overtime the next day, and gave Lin Shuang her contact information and Jade Seal.
• Qingque led Lin Shuang away from the card table to tour Changle Heaven after Fu Xuan left.
• Qingque tried to make Lin Shuang promise not to report her, and Lin Shuang teased her about her scheming expression.
• Qingque said she wanted to discuss business with Lin Shuang, but the chapter ended before she explained what it was.

Lin Shuang and Qingque uncovered a secret order showing that Abundant Doses was monitoring Lin Shuang but had been told not to provoke her. Qingque then showed Lin Shuang around the Xianzhou and rested with her at Mr. Xiyan’s, where Lin Shuang offered to massage her legs.

• Qingque warned Lin Shuang that someone might be watching her, and Lin Shuang confirmed she could sense a follower.
• Lin Shuang pickpocketed a secret order from a woman and used Qingque’s Jade Seal to record it.
• Lin Shuang and Qingque learned that Abundant Doses wanted its agent to monitor Lin Shuang without starting a conflict, and might even want to recruit her.
• Qingque took Lin Shuang from Changle Heaven to Starskiff Haven and showed her around the lively Xianzhou.
• At Mr. Xiyan’s, Qingque rested after their long walk, and Lin Shuang offered to massage her feet and calves.

Lin Shuang gave Qingque a foot massage that left her overwhelmed and embarrassed, then reunited with Tingyun, who teased her over the attention she was giving Qingque. Tingyun joined them and openly asked Lin Shuang to massage her shoulders, leaving Qingque stunned as the two drew closer.

• Qingque accepted Lin Shuang's offer of a foot massage, but the sensations made her cry out and collapse onto the table in embarrassment.
• Lin Shuang stopped massaging Qingque after she struck Lin Shuang's shoulder to get her attention.
• Tingyun arrived, teased Lin Shuang for spending time with Qingque, and sat beside her.
• Qingque explained that the Diviner had assigned her to show Lin Shuang around, and Tingyun said Lin Shuang had once saved her life.
• Tingyun told Qingque that she wanted Lin Shuang to massage her shoulders, then wrapped herself around Lin Shuang's arm and waist.

Lin Shuang reunited with Tingyun, who asked her to return for another massage, while Qingque tried to recruit Lin Shuang to help her avoid overtime. Tingyun proposed arranging an introduction to Fu Xuan, and Lin Shuang tentatively agreed to the plan.

• Tingyun clung to Lin Shuang and explained that she had missed Lin Shuang's massages during her business trip.
• Qingque admitted that Lin Shuang's massage had eased her sore feet, and Tingyun invited Lin Shuang to visit her the next day.
• After learning Qingque had been ordered to make up missed work, Qingque asked Lin Shuang to massage Fu Xuan so she could escape overtime.
• Tingyun offered to write a letter recommending Lin Shuang to Fu Xuan, with Qingque making the introduction.
• Lin Shuang considered the chance to approach Fu Xuan and tentatively accepted the plan, while Qingque declared it underway.

Lin Shuang chatted with Acheron about her travels and their plans to meet again, then was ambushed at home by Sam and Kafka. As the fight continued in a strangely undamaged room, Lin Shuang realized Silver Wolf was likely behind the attack.

• Lin Shuang logged into a game at Silver Wolf's urging, claimed the two-person event rewards, and logged off without incident.
• Acheron sent Lin Shuang photos of a dangerous planet and reassured her that she was unharmed and would leave after taking pictures.
• Lin Shuang told Acheron about her day on the Xianzhou and hoped to show her around, while Acheron suggested they could meet on Penacony.
• Sam and Kafka burst into Lin Shuang's home and attacked her, prompting her to fight back in a silver-white battle suit.
• Lin Shuang noticed Sam's flames had not damaged her sofa and suspected Silver Wolf was staging the attack as an illusion.

Silver Wolf visited Lin Shuang with projected versions of Kafka and Sam, then offered to investigate the speakers hidden inside Lin Shuang’s greatsword in exchange for being called Dad. She tricked Lin Shuang with a hundred-year loan, but began examining the sword after Lin Shuang’s outburst.

• Silver Wolf’s projections of Kafka and Sam attacked Lin Shuang, and Silver Wolf pinned her down before revealing her identity as the gaming-world Great God.
• Silver Wolf explained that Elio’s script had predicted Lin Shuang would ask her for a favor, but had not specified what it would be.
• Lin Shuang asked Silver Wolf to extract the playlist from her greatsword, and Silver Wolf said its speakers could not be removed without her help.
• Silver Wolf demanded that Lin Shuang call her Dad, then transferred 100,000,000 Credits as a hundred-year loan to provoke her.
• Lin Shuang threatened Silver Wolf over the loan, and Silver Wolf picked up the greatsword and began examining it.

Lin Shuang received a purple draw that gave her a teleportation skill, then tested it by returning to the place where she had first performed Bowing to Heaven and Earth with Acheron. After returning to the Xianzhou, she asked her contacts whether teleporting there was illegal and received a range of reactions.

• Silver Wolf revealed that the greatsword’s storage card only held music files, and Lin Shuang discovered that the sword kept playing music even after she removed it.
• Silver Wolf told Lin Shuang that she and Kafka had a mission at Herta Space Station in one month and offered to introduce her to Kafka.
• The system awarded Lin Shuang a purple draw after reporting her affinity and father-daughter relationship with Silver Wolf.
• Lin Shuang drew Aether Editing, a skill that let her teleport to places she had previously visited by pressing B.
• Lin Shuang tested the skill by teleporting to the ruined room where she had first performed Bowing to Heaven and Earth with Acheron, then returned to her Xianzhou residence.
• Lin Shuang asked Tingyun, Yukong, Qingque, and Fu Xuan whether teleporting around the Xianzhou was illegal, and each responded differently.

Lin Shuang sent music to Acheron and uploaded three songs to a music platform, where Firefly discovered and admired them. The next morning, Tingyun brought Lin Shuang breakfast and told her that Qingque had arranged a meeting with the Master Diviner around noon.

• Lin Shuang sent Silver Wolf's recovered music files to Acheron, who accepted them and thanked her.
• Lin Shuang uploaded three songs as originals and spent ten million Credits promoting them on the music platform.
• Firefly listened to Lin Shuang's songs, liked them, and decided to ask whether she could buy them and sing her own versions.
• Tingyun visited Lin Shuang with breakfast and persuaded her to give her a massage after they ate.
• Tingyun told Lin Shuang that Qingque had promised to arrange a meeting with the Master Diviner during the lunch break.
• Tingyun teased Lin Shuang about staring at the Master Diviner's feet, and Lin Shuang denied it.

Lin Shuang visited the Divination Department with Qingque to give Fu Xuan a massage, after Tingyun had introduced her skills. As Lin Shuang began massaging Fu Xuan, she was surprised that the Grand Tutor showed no obvious reaction.

• Lin Shuang left Tingyun resting at home and met Qingque in Changle Heaven.
• Qingque took Lin Shuang to the Divination Department, where Fu Xuan questioned her about her massage skills.
• Lin Shuang stopped Qingque from slipping away and revealed that Qingque had urged her to massage Fu Xuan.
• Fu Xuan ordered Qingque to stay and work overtime, then asked Lin Shuang to massage her in a lounge.
• Lin Shuang began massaging Fu Xuan's legs, but Fu Xuan made no strange sounds or clear signs of losing composure.

Lin Shuang’s massage left Fu Xuan overwhelmed, though it also eased her fatigue and the pain from her third eye. After Qingque accidentally saw Fu Xuan’s reaction and was sent away, Fu Xuan chose to continue the massage, leaving Lin Shuang to point out that holding back would reduce its effectiveness.

• Fu Xuan struggled to endure Lin Shuang’s massage in silence while Qingque worked nearby.
• Qingque sneaked a look at Fu Xuan, met her tearful gaze, and startled herself into a dramatic fall.
• Fu Xuan felt unexpectedly refreshed and noticed that her third eye’s pain had eased after Lin Shuang stopped.
• Fu Xuan sent Qingque to the Alchemy Commission so the massage could continue without her present.
• Lin Shuang told Fu Xuan that constantly holding back would affect the massage’s effectiveness.

Lin Shuang gave Fu Xuan an intense massage that eased her accumulated fatigue and left her deeply embarrassed but impressed. Fu Xuan’s favorability toward Lin Shuang rose to 75, and she tentatively asked if she could call her by name.

• Fu Xuan agreed to continue the massage by tapping Lin Shuang’s palm with her left foot.
• Lin Shuang massaged Fu Xuan’s legs and thighs until Fu Xuan was overwhelmed and surrendered.
• After the massage, Lin Shuang urged Fu Xuan to rest more, and Fu Xuan accidentally made a kitten-like sound.
• Fu Xuan wiped herself down while reflecting on how much better she felt and considering inviting Lin Shuang to massage her at home next time.
• The system showed Fu Xuan’s favorability at 75, and Fu Xuan asked Lin Shuang if she could call her by name.

After Lin Shuang’s massage, Fu Xuan invited her to become an intimate girlfriend, raising Lin Shuang’s favorability and granting her two draws. Lin Shuang left the Divination Department with Qingque and accompanied her to the Alchemy Commission, where Lin Shuang hoped to encounter Danshu and members of Abundant Doses.

• Fu Xuan asked Lin Shuang to call her by name and invited her to her home for future massages.
• Fu Xuan proposed that she and Lin Shuang become intimate girlfriends, and Lin Shuang accepted, receiving one green draw and one purple draw.
• Lin Shuang left the Divination Department after Fu Xuan said she would send her reward through the Jade Seal.
• Qingque confronted Lin Shuang outside, and the two argued over who was responsible for leaving Qingque alone with Fu Xuan.
• Qingque invited Lin Shuang to visit the Alchemy Commission before playing Emperor’s Jade, and Lin Shuang agreed, hoping to meet Danshu and Abundant Doses members.

Lin Shuang explored the Alchemy Commission with Qingque, then met its physician Danshu and learned about the Xianzhou’s congenital disabilities. After secretly taking Danshu’s papers, Lin Shuang found little useful intelligence but realized Abundant Doses might view her as a potential recruit because of her outsider status and her relationship with Acheron.

• Lin Shuang wandered through the Alchemy Commission while Qingque waited in line, taking photos and sending them to Acheron.
• Danshu introduced herself to Lin Shuang and invited her to sit for tea and conversation.
• Lin Shuang asked about Danshu’s eyes and learned that Xianzhou people with congenital disabilities were called Heavenly Defects and could not be treated with external methods.
• Lin Shuang secretly took papers from Danshu, then read them around a corner and found reports of her and Qingque’s visit along with incomplete orders to contact her.
• Lin Shuang concluded that Abundant Doses might try to recruit her, given her outsider status and her intimate relationship with Acheron.

Lin Shuang considered Abundant Doses’ attempt to recruit her, received a prescription and a draw from Danshu, then reunited with Qingque and began using her accumulated draws. The chapter ended with Lin Shuang obtaining a mysterious deck of Tarot Cards and one draw still unused.

• Lin Shuang reasoned that Abundant Doses would likely delay targeting Tingyun while it tried to win her over, and wondered where Phantylia was hiding.
• Danshu examined Lin Shuang’s hands, wrote her a medicinal prescription, and invited her to visit Ruomu Pavilion if she had questions.
• The system revealed that Danshu had 55 favorability toward Lin Shuang and rewarded her with one white draw.
• Lin Shuang returned to Qingque, explained meeting Danshu, and spent the rest of the day playing cards with her in Changle Heaven.
• Lin Shuang used her white draw to obtain an enhanced Blank Full Load Bottle, then used her purple draw to obtain Tarot Cards tainted with faint threads of fate.

Lin Shuang received a tarot deck and a Mystic Seal of True Sight, then spoke with Acheron about the danger gathering on the Luofu and her plans to visit Azur Star. Acheron showed her a captured Heliobus and offered it as a potentially safer source of power than Lin Shuang’s Stellaron.

• Lin Shuang drew The Lovers card and received the Mystic Seal of True Sight, which fused into her eyes.
• Lin Shuang told Acheron that Abundant Doses and the Divination Department were watching her, and Acheron urged her to keep the sword she had given her close.
• Lin Shuang told Acheron she planned to visit Azur Star in a month to meet her online friend and see Herta Space Station.
• Acheron showed Lin Shuang a harmless-seeming Heliobus that had tried and failed to possess her.
• Lin Shuang realized the Heliobus had likely been frightened by Acheron, who had captured it because its stable fire energy might suit Lin Shuang better than her Stellaron’s power.

Lin Shuang arranged to meet Acheron and wondered whether she could use Acheron’s Heliobus, then received a real offer from Firefly to cover her songs. The chapter ended with Lin Shuang suspecting Firefly’s voice might already be strained despite her studio’s explanation that she was preparing for Penacony’s Charmony Festival.

• Acheron immediately agreed to return to the Xianzhou after Lin Shuang suggested testing whether she could use a Heliobus.
• Lin Shuang offered to meet Acheron on a nearby planet using her new spatial teleportation ability, and Acheron accepted.
• After ending the call, Acheron tucked the Heliobus into her arm and left the Starport while Lin Shuang hoped she could make use of its abilities.
• Lin Shuang verified that Firefly Studio’s email was genuine and learned that Firefly wanted to cover several of her songs and meet her privately.
• Lin Shuang checked Firefly’s recent activity and questioned whether her voice was already strained, despite the studio saying she had paused live performances to prepare for the Charmony Festival.

Lin Shuang used Firefly’s secret about discordant noise in Penacony’s Harmony to make herself important to the singer and improve her chances of getting a Charmony Festival ticket. The next day, she reunited with Acheron at an abandoned Starport, where Acheron said her memories and sense of taste had improved thanks to Lin Shuang.

• Lin Shuang agreed to make a cover for Firefly, then contacted Firefly’s work account and questioned whether Firefly’s singing voice was affected by discordant noise in Penacony’s Harmony.
• Firefly panicked at Lin Shuang’s knowledge of her secret but denied that anything was wrong with the Family.
• Lin Shuang apologized while intending to let Firefly investigate her, hoping the secret would make Firefly negotiate with her over a Penacony ticket.
• Acheron messaged Lin Shuang that she had reached the abandoned Starport, and Lin Shuang crossed through her pixel-style portal to meet her.
• Acheron told Lin Shuang she had been looking forward to their reunion and said her sense of taste had returned and her recent memories had stopped fading as much, thanks to Lin Shuang.

Lin Shuang discovered that the ring she gave Acheron was restoring Acheron’s lost memories and preventing further memory loss. She captured Acheron’s Heliobus in a Full Load Bottle, which upgraded into a usable power source for Lin Shuang’s greatsword.

• Lin Shuang used the Mystic Seal of True Sight to learn that her ring preserved memories and had restored Acheron’s lost memories.
• Acheron moved close to Lin Shuang as they held hands, then pulled away and asked why Lin Shuang had examined the ring.
• Acheron showed Lin Shuang the Heliobus she had caught, and Lin Shuang warned her not to seek out dangerous Heliobus.
• Lin Shuang used a Full Load Bottle to absorb the Heliobus, causing the bottle to upgrade into a green-quality Heliobus Full Load Bottle.
• Lin Shuang tried drawing power directly from the bottle, then inserted it into her greatsword, changing its flames from red to blue-green.

Lin Shuang tested the Heliobus's energy-manipulating power with Acheron, and the two grew closer as Acheron's memories and emotions began returning. Back on the Xianzhou, Lin Shuang encountered Guinaifen and Li Sushang, who were curious about her card tricks.

• Lin Shuang demonstrated how she could use the Heliobus to change energy properties, while Acheron encouraged her to trust her more.
• Acheron explained that her memories and emotions had begun returning, and Lin Shuang held her hand as they explored the planet together.
• Lin Shuang and Acheron shared a meal and slept beside each other in the ruins; Lin Shuang woke in Acheron's embrace and noticed her affection had increased.
• After waking, Lin Shuang hugged Acheron and returned to the Xianzhou, where she considered how to gain more freedom on Penacony and planned to visit Qingque.
• Guinaifen rushed up to Lin Shuang with Li Sushang and asked where she had learned her card-handling skills.

Lin Shuang met Guinaifen and Sushang, impressed them with her sleight of hand, and agreed to teach Guinaifen while exchanging contact information with both women. She later visited Ruomu Pavilion to thank Danshu for a prescription, leaving Bailu as someone she still hoped to meet.

• Lin Shuang showed Guinaifen and Sushang her sleight of hand, and Guinaifen eagerly asked to learn from her.
• Lin Shuang exchanged contact information with Guinaifen, and Sushang insisted on joining them before Lin Shuang left.
• Lin Shuang stopped by the card parlor, teased Qingque, and said she was going to Ruomu Pavilion to thank Danshu.
• Lin Shuang thought about meeting Bailu and asking Tingyun about her before arriving at Ruomu Pavilion.
• Danshu asked Lin Shuang whether her prescription had helped, and Lin Shuang thanked her for easing the pain in her hands.

Lin Shuang visited Danshu at Ruomu Pavilion, where Danshu examined her recovering hands and invited her to deliver medicine to Leisurely Court. There, Lin Shuang found children bullying a blind girl and used her powers to punish their ringleader and terrify the rest.

• Lin Shuang met Danshu at Ruomu Pavilion, and Danshu found that Lin Shuang's hands were recovering quickly.
• Danshu invited Lin Shuang to accompany her to Leisurely Court to deliver medicine to her comrades.
• At Leisurely Court, Lin Shuang and Danshu found children mocking a blind girl who was stranded on steps beside a pond.
• When the children's ringleader insulted Lin Shuang and the other children threatened her, Lin Shuang knocked the ringleader down, froze him kneeling, and struck two others to the ground.
• Lin Shuang surrounded the children with dark green flames and threatened them, frightening the ringleader into wetting himself.

Lin Shuang used illusions to stop a group of children from bullying a blind girl, then unsettled Danshu with a tarot reading that hinted she might be misled and abandoned. After parting with Danshu, Lin Shuang planned to weaken Phantylia before letting Acheron fight her, hoping to keep Acheron safe while drawing her into the conflict.

• Lin Shuang frightened the bullies with an illusion, and the children blamed one another before choosing two sacrifices and fleeing.
• Danshu escorted the blind girl home and acknowledged that she had sensed Lin Shuang's intervention.
• Lin Shuang urged Danshu to address discrimination against people with Heavenly Defects through the Department of Civil Affairs, disrupting Danshu's attempt to persuade her about Abundant Doses.
• Danshu drew the reversed Hierophant, and Lin Shuang interpreted it as a warning of false information, manipulation, and abandonment.
• Lin Shuang considered using Jing Yuan and Acheron to weaken Phantylia before Acheron confronted her, and decided to first undermine Danshu's position.

Lin Shuang confronted a Xianzhou official and Cloud Knights who accused her of attacking children, then used her power to overpower them. Fu Xuan and Yanqing promised an investigation and an answer within a day, while Firefly contacted Lin Shuang to arrange a meeting on the Xianzhou.

• A Xianzhou official arrived with Cloud Knights and children who accused Lin Shuang of attacking them and being an Abundant Doses spy.
• Lin Shuang summoned ghostly green flames, knocked the official down, and frightened the children into begging for mercy.
• Fu Xuan and Yanqing arrived, condemned the Cloud Knights' conduct, and promised to investigate and give Lin Shuang an answer within one day.
• Yanqing asked Lin Shuang to spare the offenders for a fair Xianzhou judgment, and Lin Shuang withdrew her flames as he began handling the incident.
• Fu Xuan invited Lin Shuang to visit the Divination Department, but Lin Shuang said they could discuss it after the matter was settled.
• Firefly messaged Lin Shuang and asked to meet on the Xianzhou to discuss the song.

Lin Shuang met Tingyun at the Sky-Faring Commission, reassured her about the recent incident, and warned her that a Great Annihilation Lord might be behind the Abundance faction targeting the Luofu. Tingyun agreed to be careful and offered to take Lin Shuang to meet Bailu, while Lin Shuang planned to share the intelligence with Jing Yuan.

• Lin Shuang agreed to meet Firefly on the Xianzhou Luofu when Firefly arrived in a week.
• Lin Shuang brought Tingyun tea and snacks, and Tingyun checked that she had not been mistreated before inviting her to the Sky-Faring Commission.
• Lin Shuang explained her conflict with the Cloud Knights, and Tingyun remarked that Fu Xuan's intervention showed the Xianzhou valued Lin Shuang or Acheron.
• Lin Shuang warned Tingyun that the Abundance faction's actions might involve a Great Annihilation Lord and described a Lord Ravager resembling a Heliobus.
• Tingyun thanked Lin Shuang for the intelligence and agreed to be careful, while Lin Shuang planned to tell Jing Yuan.
• Lin Shuang asked about Bailu's massages, and Tingyun offered to take her to meet the Dragon Daughter.